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Labor Law

4890 W. Kennedy Blvd., Ste. 950, Tampa, FL 33609

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Labor Law

One Boston Place, Boston, MA 02201, USA

Lisa Stephanian Burton is the managing shareholder of the Boston and Portland, Maine, offices of Ogletree Deakins. She defends employers in litigation and counsels on labor and employment issues that include wage and hour, discrimination, leaves of absence, and other US state and federal laws and regulations. Lisa also advises employers on business immigration matters. She works frequently with employers in the life sciences, healthcare, technology, retail, manufacturing, employee staffing and financial services industries. Lisa’s employment litigation practice includes representing clients before state and federal agencies as well as before state and federal courts. She defends wage and hour class and collective actions involving claims under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and state law. Lisa also defends clients in employment discrimination challenges, including claims of race, gender, age, and disability discrimination, retaliation, and wrongful termination cases. In her labor and employment counseling practice, Lisa advises clients on employment practices and policies. She counsels employers on structuring the workforce, labor and employment implications of mergers and acquisitions, hiring, firing, management and reductions in force (RIF). Clients routinely have Lisa conduct internal investigations and audits. Lisa also has handled several OSHA related matters involving workplace injuries and complaints. Lisa’s immigration practice includes helping employees of both large and small companies’ secure employment-based visas and permanent residency. She helps employers achieve immigration solutions for information technology professionals, executive and managerial employees, investors, medical professionals, and scientists and researchers in academia and in the biomedical and pharmaceutical industries. Lisa also represents clients facing government investigations related to immigration compliance and alleged abuses in immigration-related employment practices.

Labor Law

3632 Cedarbrae Ln, San Diego, CA 92106, USA

Madison Alvarez is an Associate in Freeman Mathis & Gary, LLP's San Diego office. She is a member of the firm’s Tort & Catastrophic Loss, Labor & Employment Law and Commercial Litigation/Directors & Officers Practice Sections. She represents clients in a wide range of civil litigation matters, including personal injury defense, employment disputes, complex commercial litigation and homeowners association and real estate cases. Ms. Alvarez is experienced in managing all phases of civil litigation, from early case assessment and strategic planning through discovery, motion practice and trial preparation. Her work includes developing comprehensive case strategies, preparing detailed witness and evidence summaries and crafting persuasive legal arguments to position cases for favorable resolution, whether through settlement or in the courtroom. She prioritizes efficiency and clear communication to advance her clients’ objectives while minimizing risk and disruption. Ms. Alvarez earned her Juris Doctor from California Western School of Law. She also holds a Master of Arts in environment, culture and media with an emphasis on environmental communication from the University of Miami.

Labor Law

9360 Sunset Drive, 283, Miami, FL 33173

Mark Richard is a founding partner of the firm. For more than 30 years, he has dedicated his career to union workers, handling strategic and corporate campaigns as well as NLRB, PERC and arbitration proceedings. He became involved with the labor movement in 1975, when he took his first labor union position as the South Florida Boycott Organizing Director for Cesar Chavez’s United Farm Workers of America (“UFW”). In that capacity, coordinated the grape and lettuce boycott in South Florida. Mark Richard’s legal career is dedicated to representing solely labor unions. He has been involved in public and private sector organizing, bargaining, and coalition building for over three decades. He has been involved in negotiating over more than 250 collective bargaining agreements in both the public and private sector. These include contracts for state and local government employees, teachers and paraprofessionals, college professors, attending and resident physicians, nurses, social workers, fire and public safety professionals, aviation employees, and multiple other AFT units. Additionally, he was involved in bargaining over the contract for the first unionized charter school in Florida. Mr. Richard has also conducted strategic contract campaigns for many unions including TWU Local 556 (Southwest Airlines flight attendants), APFA (American Airlines flight attendants), IFPTE (United Airlines engineers), PFAA (Northwest flight attendants) and TWU Local 553 (Eastern Airlines flight attendants). From 2003 to 2005 Mr. Richard was appointed by the American Federation of Teachers as administrator to coordinate the strategic recovery and restructure of the United Teachers of Dade (“UTD”). UTD represents over 30,000 educators serving Miami-Dade County Public Schools, the 4th largest school system in America. Mr. Richard was the chief negotiator for three rounds of bargaining with the school system and the lead strategist for the union’s contract campaign. In 2009, he was appointed as an administrator for AFT healthcare local in Portland, Oregon which represents 3000 medical professionals employed at Kaiser Permanente. Mr. Richard’s dedication to the law does not end at the courthouse steps. At Miami-Dade Community College, he progressed through the faculty ranks, obtaining a position as a full professor in the Legal Assistant Department. Mark retained his role in that capacity until last year. While on the faculty, he successfully organized an AFT professors’ local union in 1998 and served as its founding Local President for 18 years.

Labor Law

600 Third Avenue, 22nd Floor, New York, NY 10016-1915

Area of Practice: Labor and Employment Law A graduate of Columbia Law School (1962) and the University of Michigan (Economics) (1959), Michael is a labor and employment law attorney who began his career with the New York Regional Office of the National Labor Relations Board. Since entering private practice in 1965, he has represented management in all facets of labor and employment law, both in for-profit and not-for-profit settings, including in his capacities as Partner with Aranow, Brodsky, Bohlinger, Benetar, Einhorn & Dann; Partner with Benetar Isaacs Bernstein & Schair; Managing Partner with Benetar, Bernstein, Schair & Stein; and Senior Partner and now Of Counsel with Bond, Schoeneck & King. He is a frequent lecturer and, as well, contributing editor and author to major federal and state labor and employment law treatises and periodicals, and to Chambers Global Practice Guide, USA Regional Employment. In 2015 Michael was honored with a “Lifetime Achievement Award” by the New York State Bar Association, Labor and Employment Law Section. He also has been elected as a Fellow of the American Bar Association; a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers; and a Fellow of the New York Bar Foundation. In 1992, his firm, Benetar Bernstein Schair & Stein was the recipient of The Reliance Award for Excellence in Education, Outstanding Small Business in New York City. Michael has chaired the Labor & Employment Law Section of the New York State Bar Association and is a member of its Executive Committee. He has chaired, as well, both the Labor Committee of the New York City Bar Association and the Federal Labor Standards Legislation Committee of the American Bar Association. Michael also is a long-standing member of the New York State Bar Association Committee on Diversity and Inclusion and the NYU Labor and Employment Center’s Board of Advisors. He has served as well as a member of the New York City Bar Association Committee on Minorities in the Profession and as a judge in its annual Michael Oshima Essay Competition; as a member of the New York State Bar Association’s Special Committee on Youth Outreach; and as a member of the New York State Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Section Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Law School Liaisons, including as a judge in its annual Emanuel and Kenneth Stein Law School Essay Competition. Michael has also served as a member of the Departmental Disciplinary Committee, Appellate Division, First Judicial Department; as a member of the Privacy Initiative Task Force, New York State Bar Association; a member of the Governor’s Advisory Panel on Economic Development, New York State (Project 2000); a member of the Law Committee (Labor Section), American Arbitration Association; a member of the Lt. Governor’s Task Force on Plant Closings, New York State; Chair, Subcommittee, Project on Simplification of the Law, New York State Bar Association, Labor and Employment Law Section; and Chair, Committee on Intake and Investigation, Task Force of New York State Division of Human Rights.